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Diameter about twice the height; neck concave, often strengthened with a lashing of mesquite bark; lip gently everted; principal design inside; outside design usually mere lines, stripes, rows of dots.
From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner
No sound escaped from Imbrie, but his smooth face turned hideous with rage; the lips everted over the clenched teeth, the ruddy skin livid and blotchy.
From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Hulbert Footner
—Thick and moderately everted lips occur in nearly half the series.
From A Racial Study of the Fijians by Norman E. Gabel
The lips instead of being everted were in parallel planes—those, namely, of the top and bottom of the net.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
This may occur from the feet of the foal during parturition, or from ill-directed efforts to assist, but it is especially liable to take place in the everted, congested, and friable organ.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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